Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies. Microscopic scales, just ...

The pair photographed the moth before releasing it back into the wild and logging the find in a database. They were amazed to ...

Because it is also colorful, people often mistake this moth for a butterfly. It’s a Canadian import that used to be far more ...

Researchers studying fossilised dung (the lucky ones) from Argentina’s Parque Nacional Talampaya, have uncovered the oldest ...

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the oldest physical evidence of butterflies and moths, dating back 236 million years ...

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it ...

Tiny wing scales trapped in fossilized dung suggest butterflies evolved long before flowers appeared.

Photograph by Mac Stone Biologist Peter Houlihan inspects the proboscis of a giant sphinx moth. Twice the length of its body, its long tongue can access nectar deep in long-stemmed flowers like ...

Most of the measurements of the proboscis ... and curator of moths at the Natural History Museum, London in a statement. "The taxonomic change we now propose finally gives long-deserved ...

The adult sphinx moths are also known for their long proboscis, which they use to draw nectar from deep, tubular flowers. The phenomenon of the caterpillar's transformation was first observed in ...

The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated sucking mouthpart — to extract nectar from the flower's center.